Cork Oak (Quercus suber)

Canopy Tree Walk - Greenmeadow Neighborhood
Arborist Peter Jensen, Landscape Architect, City of Palo Alto
April, 2020

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Normally here in Portugal we take the cork every 9 years

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I think 4 year

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Plant native oak trees

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What kind of things live in the bark? I once picked up a hunk of cork and put in my dorm room in the south of France; in the morning a scorpion had appeared in it! Is this usual?